I had a broken ankle in '99 and there was a lot of tissue damage which resulted in it swelling up every day for the first few months. After not much improvement after 3 months, my naturopath suggested a magnetic pillow, which was actually a slim pillow with magnets between the layers, which you insert into your normal pillowcase next to your normal pillow.

I always sleep with a pillow between my knees and ankles anyway, as it seems to help prevent occasional back problems, so I had my ankle next to the magnetic pillow all night. I also took as many opportunities during the day to sit with it wrapped around my ankle (I had already been spending as much time as possible with my feet up). Within two days I started to notice a dramatic improvement, with much less swelling from then on. A couple of weeks later it was pretty much back to normal.

When I broke my wrist in early 2002, and it was taking a long time to heal, I got the pillow out again and rested my arm on it at night in bed. Apart from it feeling instantly more comfortable, the healing rate started to pick up, and I got more movement back in my fingers. It had been a very bad break, and the doctor was amazed at how much movement and flexibility I got back. It's as good as new now.

Of course I can't give figures or measurements or proof, but the results seemed obvious enough to me that I believe it works, and if I had a similar problem again, I would use it again and expect to see good results again.

Jenny